After mastering the skills on these few magic scrolls, Nolan looked at his attribute panel:
[Ability Chart]
Innate Ability: [Player]
Overall Level: 5Lv
Experience Slot: 830 / 400
Profession:
Basic Profession: Genius 1LV (Warrior, Priest, Potion Maker, Alchemist, Mage, Thief)
Intermediate Profession: Sword Saint 4Lv
Skill Points: 3
Passive Skills: Item Box, Slash Enhancement (4%)
Active Skills:
Warrior: Instant Reflex, Four-Light Consecutive Slash, Quick Slash, Stealth
Magic: Papermaking (Zero-Tier), Heating (Zero-Tier)
Light Injury Healing (First-Tier), Magic Arrow (First-Tier), Scentless (First-Tier)
Professional Skills: Potion Making, Alchemy
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Killing those two 'Eight Fingers' members granted him a lot of experience.
Nolan's mind stirred, and he consumed experience to raise his level, allocating the increased level to 'Sword Saint'.
Genius 1LV + Sword Saint 5LV — Overall Level 6LV
Among his skills, Nolan had mastered the 'Stealth' skill from the male thief, and incidentally unlocked the basic profession of Thief.
Skill: Stealth
Cost: None (Cooldown 1min)
Description: In darkness or shadowy environments, reduces one's presence and increases agility by 10% for 30 seconds.
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Skill: Papermaking (Zero-Tier) ↑
Cost: 1MP
Description: Creates 1000 sheets of low-quality paper. For every additional point of magic power consumed, creates 500 more sheets, with no upper limit.
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Skill: Heating (Zero-Tier) ↑
Cost: 1MP
Description: Heats a touched object to 100℃ within 1 minute.
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Nolan looked at the information of his newly acquired skills and magic. He wasn't too surprised to note that zero-tier magic only required one point of magic power to cast.
Zero-tier life magic indeed offered no help in combat.
No wonder few magic casters in the other world were willing to master many zero-tier spells!
Even in the game 'YGGDRASIL', there was an upper limit on skill points.
For people in the other world, learning magic required effort, and it seemed there was also a certain limit to the number of spells each magic caster could master at each stage.
In such circumstances, even fewer people were willing to waste time learning zero-tier magic.
Suddenly!
Nolan noticed the "↑" mark after the two zero-tier spells.
"This is!"
Nolan's eyes widened, and his body trembled. "His previous guess was actually correct."
When he was looking through magic scroll books at the Mages' Guild, Nolan noticed that among the recorded magic scrolls, there were both zero-tier and first-tier magic scrolls for 'Papermaking'.
This unique situation made Nolan somewhat curious.
The tier-based magic system in the game 'YGGDRASIL' had very clear level divisions.
Yet, the life magic independently created by people in the other world could actually be upgraded to different tiers!
This not only made Nolan realize whether the magic created by the magic casters in the other world was different from the tier magic in the game!
This was also why Nolan bought two zero-tier spells to verify his theory.
"Upgrade!"
Nolan stared intently at the two zero-tier spells.
As each of these two spells consumed 1 skill point, the two spells indeed changed.
Skill: Papermaking (First-Tier)
Cost: 5MP
Description: Creates 800 sheets of high-quality paper. For every additional point of magic power consumed, creates 400 more sheets, with no upper limit.
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Skill: Heating (First-Tier)
Cost: 5MP
Description: Heats a touched object to 150℃ within 1 minute.
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Nolan looked at the newly displayed information. While pleasantly surprised, he also frowned slightly.
How should he put it?
According to his guess, the life magic independently created in the other world could indeed be upgraded in tier, but for now, the changes weren't very significant.
Additionally, the "↑" mark after these two spells had disappeared.
"According to the learning levels for tier magic, one can master first-tier magic from levels 1-7, and second-tier magic from levels 8-14."
Nolan thought to himself, "It must be because my level isn't high enough, so I can't upgrade them for now."
He also wondered if, by continuing to upgrade, he could raise these two spells to the level of tenth-tier magic.
It's just that—
If they really reached tenth-tier magic level, would these zero-tier spells, developed by the people of this other world for auxiliary purposes, possess the power of normal tenth-tier magic?
Whether they were useful was one aspect!
Another aspect was that skill points were limited, and whether it was worth it to spend skill points on upgrading these.
After all, these life spells were inherently for auxiliary purposes, and all of this needed consideration!
Nolan took a deep breath, his eyes still filled with excitement and surprise.
No matter what!
This was a completely unforeseen way to acquire tenth-tier magic, as there were almost no natives in the other world who could use tenth-tier magic.
No one used it.
Nolan naturally couldn't acquire tenth-tier magic by consuming skill points either.
More importantly—there was no intelligence about such magic in the Great Tomb!
He organized his thoughts.
Nolan gently rubbed his temples to relieve his tired head, then lay directly on the bed.
Most ideas could be experimented with later!
Right now, the most important thing was still to raise his level; he couldn't put the cart before the horse.
"Sleep!" Nolan suppressed his inner excitement.
The next day.
At dawn.
Nolan was already up, left the small inn, and began purchasing some food and essential supplies.
With the Item Box, which was a relatively large spatial backpack, Nolan didn't need to worry too much about food storage and spoilage.
He spent two gold coins.
Nolan bought nearly a month's worth of food in one go. To prevent buying so much food at once from attracting attention,
Nolan went to different shops to buy batches, and just buying food took him an entire morning.
After a quick lunch.
Nolan began to purchase some weapons; his short sword already had cracks and chips and could no longer be used.
He bought 10 ordinary iron swords at the price of one silver coin per sword, and also bought a lightweight soft armor for protection, spending a total of one gold coin.
Next.
Nolan went to the Mages' Guild again. Since they weren't planning to sell second-tier magic scrolls, Nolan had to reveal his identity as a faith-based magic caster.
Only then did he spend three gold coins to purchase a 'Item Appraisal' magic scroll for identifying items.
Although it was a second-tier spell, because 'Item Appraisal' was neither an auxiliary nor an offensive spell, its price was similar to that of a first-tier offensive magic scroll.
After taking care of these basic supplies.
Nolan then went to the Adventurers' Guild and purchased some intelligence on the Tob Great Forest from them.
This again cost him two gold coins.
After a full day of preparation, Nolan had spent 8 gold coins, leaving him with only 6 gold and 7 silver.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye!
On the first day of the 'Lower Wind Moon' (June 1st).
Nolan, clad in a black robe, with an iron sword at his left hip and a water skin on his right, left 'E-Rantel' after two days of rest, heading north.
The Tob Great Forest was a vast primeval jungle surrounding the 'Anjelesia Mountains', located north of 'E-Rantel'.
It was home to a large number of dangerous magical beasts and demi-human races, making it one of humanity's forbidden zones. Even some top adventurers only dared to operate in its outermost fringes.